BREAKING: PENGASSAN Suspends Strike
The Petroleum and Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has suspended its planned nationwide strike it declared last Friday.
The suspension comes after the intervention of government officials.
The Union and government representatives are expected to resume talks in January 2018.
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The strike action scheduled to commence after 11:59 p.m. today followed the group’s peace meeting last week with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, which ended in a deadlock.
Prior to the meeting, the oil workers had issued a 72-hour ultimatum to government to intervene over allegations of anti-workers’ practices perpetrated against some of its members working in Neconde Energy Limited, an indigenous oil company.
The umbrella body of senior workers in the oil and gas industry had accused the management of Neconde Energy Limited of wrongful termination of the employment of some of its workers who belong to PENGASSAN.
“Following the failure of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, to settle the rift between this body (PENGASSAN) and Neconde, the management of PENGASSAN has agreed to start the strike on Monday night (December 18th, 2017),” Mr. Fortune Obi spokesman for the Union said a statement.
